US Patent Issued to Kubota on Oct. 6 for "Multipurpose vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,865, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Multipurpose vehicle" was invented by Yuji Ishii (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multipurpose vehicle includes a cargo bed including a floor panel 22 and a rear gate 24 supported to be swingable between a closed state, in which the rear gate 24 is at a vertical position with respect to the floor panel 22, and an open state, in which the rear gate 24 has swung rearward of the floor panel 22; and a holding mechanism configured to be manually operable to enter a holding state, in which the holding mechanism holds the rear gate 24 at a first angle that is ...